One thing that always struck me when I redistricted all of the US way back was that I just plain didn't like my seats to be this large.So...I've started to redistrict the US into seats about the size of British or French constituencies (or for the state House of Hessen)...roughly 100,000 inhabitants.Obviously this would make for an impractically large House of Reps, so don't tell me that. I already know.

Okay, some rules:1. Each state is apportioned a number of seats based on its population divided by 100,000, rounded up or down. This number will not be deviated from under any circumstances. No seat will straddle two states under any circumstances.2. This is then distributed to the counties. Each county is apportioned (etc to) down. However, seats will not be allowed to deviate by more than 20% from 100,000 except in special circumstances. (I decide what a special circumstance is. There won't be many. There might not be any.)As a result of this rule, any county of 80,000-120,000 inhabitants is awarded one seat. Any county of 160,000-240,000 inhabitants is awarded two seats. (Any county of 250,000-350,000 inhabitants is awarded three seats and so forth after that.)3. Smaller counties will be grouped together to create the remaining districts.4. A county of 120,000-160,000 inhabitants will be granted one whole seat that will only include part of the county. The remainder of the county will be paired with smaller counties.Similarly, a county of 240,000-250,000 inhabitants will be granted two whole seats plus a remainder.5. If challenging geography requires it, minor deviations from all rules but rule 1 are allowable.6. If a county is to be split, I'll line out which townships/Census Bureau subdivisions/whatever go into which district. In the larger counties, these things will be awarded seats just like counties are, except I'll be somewhat more lenient with the rules. 7. I won't carve up large subdivisions into detailed seats, although I may sometimes provide a rough outline of what seats might look like. 8. I'll try and produce fancy names for the seats, rather along the lines of the British ones. These go by their own subset of rules:a. Place, river and mountain names, but mostly place names. The disgusting and Australian habit of naming seats after people will be frowned upon.b. Names composed of one to three parts, plus cardinal points where necessary.c. County and County subdivision names used only when they are reasonably uncommon (this is to avoid having two dozen Jefferson constituencies)However, I'll probably leave quite a lot of these blank - especially in the cities, where I won't actually have lined out where the seats are exactly.Plus I'll sometimes give alternative suggestions.9. Because I've usually always worked my way through the US East to West, I'll begin on the Pacific this time.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

As that leaves no representation to Kauai (58K) and Kalawao (basically 0) counties, Kauai will share one of the Honolulu county seats while Kalawao will share the Maui seat. Hawaii and Maui will share a seat.

In Honolulu County, Honolulu CCD (372K) is entitled to 4 seats, Ewa CCD (272K) to 3 seats and Koolaupoko CCD (118K) to 1 seat. Since this leaves a horribly oversized (171K) North Oahu-Kauai seat, I have decided that Honolulu and Ewa will have 3 and 2 whole seats respectively, and share a sixth.

Seats:HILOHawaii County CCD's of Hilo, Keaau - Mountain View, North Hilo, Pahoa - Kalapana, Papaikau - Wailea, and Kau. Population 87K.HAWAII WEST (or: KONA) - MAUI (NORTH) EASTRemaining Hawaii County CCDs; Maui County CCD's of Hailu - Pauela, Hana, Makewao - Paia. Hope I spelled these right. Population 91K.MAUI WEST (& MOLOKAI)Remaining Maui County CCDs; Kalawao County. Population 100K.HONOLULU 1-3No details available, but likely to be arranged east to west.EWA 1 & 2No details available, but one seat on the Northern & Western shores of Pearl Harbor (perhaps named Pearl Harbor) and one seat combining the center of the island around Mililani Town with the areas immediately northeast of Pearl Harbor appears likely.HONOLULU / EWANo details available, but would obviously include the (north?-)westernmost part of Honolulu and southeastern Ewa around Aiea, and might well be named Aiea.KOOLAUPOKOCCD of that name (island's Eastern coast.) Population 118K.OAHU NORTH WESTWaianae, Waialua and Wahiawa CCDs. Population 94K.KAUAI & KOOLAULOAKoolauloa CCD; Kauai County. Population 77K. I have not been able to split the area into two districts of over 80K population without splitting a CCD. Given that this seat is already disadvantaged due to the large distance betwwn its Oahu part and Kauai, I have decided to let it be.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

As that leaves the remainder of the state with 284K inhabitants and just 2 seats, I have grouped Kenai Peninsula Borough (50K) with Anchorage. (I tried Matanuska-Susitna Borough with 60K at first, but it made for a very ugly split between the two vast rural constituencies.)

ANCHORAGE WEST (or NORTH)ANCHORAGE EAST (or SOUTH)KENAI PENINSULA & ANCHORAGE SOUTH (or EAST)no details availableFAIRBANKSFairbanks North Star Borough, 83KPANHANDLE & ALASKA SOUTH (or some such name)Bristol Bay, Aleutians East, Lake & Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Yakutat boroughs, Aleutians West, Valdez-Cordova, Southeast Fairbanks census areas, and all boroughs and census areas south of Yakutat. 115K inhabitants.ALASKA NORTH (or maybe something more colourful...BERING STRAIT perhaps?)All other boroughs and census areas. 120K inhabitants (half of them in Mat-Su, and most of the rest Inuit from the West coast...should make for interesting elections )

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Due to unfortunate rounding, that leaves just 922K inhabitants but 10+1 seats, in areas that, for the most part, are not fast growing. Moreover, the distribution of the population in King County was such that I had to distribute 9 seats to Seattle CCD (897K) and 5 seats to East Seattle CCD (480K) and was left with three seats for 360K people in for the most part very fast growing regions. Therefore I gave that extra seat mentioned above to (outer) King County, and just 9+1 seats to rural Washington.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Multnomah 660K7 seatsWashington 445K4 seatsClackamas 338K3 seatsHad the Census been held just a year later, Washington would have 5 seats, Clackamas might have 4 and Multnomah might have only 6...tough luck for the suburbs in this case.Marion 285K3 seatsLinn 103K1 seatYamhill 85K1 seatLane 322K3 seatsDouglas 100K1 seat (actually, 1+1, for reasons that will be made clear)Jackson 181K2 seatsDeschutes 115K1 seat

That leaves 786K and 8 seats. Interestingly the remaining counties are split into three noncoterminous regions...NW: 288K, 3 seats. SW: 160K, 2 seats. East: 338K, 3 seats.A problem arose in the SW which led to me distributing part of Douglas County to one of these seats.

ASTORIAClatsop, Columbia and Tillamook Counties. 104KPORTLAND 1-5 (cardinal points)GRESHAMMULTNOMAH EASTMultnomah County. Details not available. Except for two mini CCD's (Skyline and Corbett) at the county's outer ends, all of it is in Portland CCD. 526K are within Portland city limits. The city of Gresham has 90K inhabitants and would likely get its own seat.BEAVERTONHILLSBOROTIGARD (probably)Beaverton-Hillsboro CCD of Washington County. 340K. Seats tentatively named after largest towns of 67K, 61K and 41K.CHEHALEMRemaining CCD's of Washington County. 105KCLACKAMAS 1 & 2Northwest Clackamas CCD of Clackamas County. No really dominant town. 224K. The County Town is here and is called Oregon City. I might use that name.MOLALLA & MOUNT HOODRemaining CCD's of Clackamas County. 114KYAMHILLYamhill County. 85KSALEM NORTHSALEM SOUTHSalem CCD of Marion County. 204K, of which 119K within city limits. The city of Salem is split between Marion and Polk Counties.WOODBURN & SILVERTONRemaining CCD's of Marion County. 81 KSALEM WEST & SILETZPolk County; All of Lincoln County except Waldport and Eddysville CCD's. 98KCORVALLIS & WALDPORTBenton County; Waldport and Eddysville CCD's of Lincoln County. 86KSANTIAM RIVERLinn County. 103KEUGENE WESTPart of city of Eugene (138K), plus any enclaves within itEUGENE EAST & SPRINGFIELDRemainder of Eugene - Springfield CCD (pop of 230K)SIUSLAW & UPPER WILLAMETTERemainder of Lane County. 93K. Totally surrounds the two Eugene constituencies.ROSEBURG & REEDSPORTDouglas County except North Umpqua and South Umpqua CCD's (that's pretty exactly half the area of Douglas County, actually, but very thinly inhabited) 91KCOOS BAY & CURRYCoos and Curry counties. 84 KGRANTS PASS & UMPQUAJosephine County (which has 76K and couldn't be combined with anything, hence the split of Douglas County); Douglas County's North Umpqua and South Umpqua CCD's. 85KMEDFORDMost of Medford CCD of Jackson County (112K) including all of the city (63K) of same name.ASHLAND & UPPER ROGUE Remainder of Jackson County (pop: 181K)BENDDeschutes County (115K)KLAMATH & MALHEURKlamath, Lake, Harvey, Malheur Counties. 111K. PENDLETONMorrow, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa. 114K. JOHN DAY RIVER & THE DALLES. Best I could do.All the remainder - Baker, Grant, Crook, Jefferson, Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam and Wheeler in a vast townless district (except for some holidaying exurbs in Hood River in the district's far NW corner) of 113K.

« Last Edit: April 27, 2005, 03:07:19 am by Lewis Trondheim »

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

The population of 100,000 is very close to the size of a representative seat in the IL General Assembly. States are more akin to European countries in size. So, the size of these districts doesn't match well for the US as a whole.

Logged

I'm on my road trip to the Pac NW. Red is an overnight stay; blue is a point of interest; cyan is a stop; green is just a drive through.

Muon: See the first post. Just before the smilie. Immy: Coming soon.WMS: Your job.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

This message exceeds the maximum allowed length, and shall be split.CALIFORNIAStill very vague in urban areas.33,872 Mio. 339 seats.

EUREKA (or HUMBOLDT BAY)Eureka, North Coastal and most of Arcata CCDs. Arcata CCD's population is mostly right by Eureka, but the CCD stretches up some valley to the county line. Population 89K minus whatever is chopped off ArcataCRESCENT CITY, TRINITY & EEL RIVERRemainder of Humboldt County, Trinity County, Del Norte County. Population 78K plus what's gained in Arcata.MENDOCINOCounty of same name. 86K.SANTA ROSA EAST (or NORTH)SANTA ROSA WEST (or SOUTH)Santa Rosa CCD of Sonoma County. 190K together.PETALUMA EAST & SONOMASonoma CCD, part of Petaluma CCDPETALUMA WEST & SEBASTOPOLSebastopol CCD, remainder of Petaluma CCD. 189K together.RUSSIAN RIVER & POINT REYESRemainder of Sonoma County; Northwest Marin and Southwest Marin CCDs, and a bit part of Northeast Marin CCD. 91K plus said bit part.SAN RAFAEL & NOVATOSan Rafael CCD, remainder of Northeast Marin CCD. 124K minus said bit part.SAUSALITO & ROSS VALLEYSoutheast Marin and Ross Valley CCDs. 112K.NAPANapa CCD of Napa County. 102KCLEAR LAKERemainder of Napa County. Lake County. 80KVACAVILLEVacaville CCD of Solano County. 96KFAIRFIELDJust the city (and perhaps anything enclosed by it, didn't see anything though) 96KVALLEJOCity of Vallejo, unincorporated area to the west of it. 117K plus that unincorporated area. This might be over 120K, but I think it's better than splitting the city.GRIZZLY BAYRemainder of Fairfield-Suisun City and Vallejo CCDs, all of Dixon and Rio Vista CCDs, ie: remainder of Solano County. 88K minus that incorporated area in Fairfield constituency.

Yolo 2. Darn it. I knew I'd forget something. Will get back to you on this one.

FOLSOMFolsom CCD of Sacramento County (pop:52K). Part of Sacramento CCD (960K)SACRAMENTO 1-9Remainder of Sacramento CCD. Delta CCD (5K).MATHERMather CCD. 97K.ELK GROVE - GALTElk Grove, Galt and Sloughhouse CCDs. 110K.YREKA - SUSANVILLESiskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas counties.99K.REDDINGCity of Redding. 81K. Plus any enclaves.SHASTARemainder of Shasta County. 82K. Minus any enclaves.CHICOChico, Durham, Biggs and Gridley CCDs of Butte County. 109K.OROVILLE & PARADISEOroville, Paradise, Palermo and Feather Falls CCDs of Butte County. 94K. This represents a pretty even East-West split of Butte County. Along a river, too. Wisht all counties were like that. TEHAMA - GLENN.I guess Glenn is just about stomachable in the combination of names. Counties of said names. 82K.SUTTER - COLUSACounties of said names. 98K.SIERRA NEVADACounties of said names. Couldn't resist the constituency name. 96K.YUBA - WEST VALLEY (obviously that name can't be allowed to stand. Open to suggestions)Yuba County; West Valley CCD of Placer County. 82KROSEVILLERoseville CCD of Placer County. 81KAUBURN & NORTH LAKE TAHOELake Tahoe, Foresthill - Back Country, Colfax - Summit, and Auburn CCDs. 78K.And, in case you were wondering: Loomis Basin - Folsom Lake CCD (67K) will have to be split up between the three.PLACERVILLE & SOUTH LAKE TAHOEPlacerville, North El Dorado, South Lake Tahoe CCDs. And probably (eastern) part of South El Dorado CCD, the western part of which is Sacramento outer suburbs. 78K plus whatever's added.SOUTH EL DORADO - AMADORSouth El Dorado CCD (or most of it). Amador County. 113K minus x.CALAVERAS - TUOLUMNECounties of said name. 96K.SAN FRANCISCO 1-8Yeah, well, eight seats.SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO 1-3The Daly City, Oceanside etc area of San Mateo County.SAN MATEO 1-4San Mateo CCD stretches from Hillsborough on south. South Coastside CCD (29K) around Half Moon Bay will for population balance reasons be included in one of these seats.SANTA CLARA 1-17Santa Clara County includes a big, heavily populated basin with coastal strip attached in the NW. And Mountains around on three sides. The Census Bureau's CCDs are nothing less than helpful here. San Jose CCD is entitled to 16 seats. All the others together are not entitled to a single seat. Obviously I could have done better than not doing anything at all. Obviously others who actually know the area could do much better than me.SANTA CRUZWATSONVILLEMONTEREY BAY NORTHSanta Cruz County. 255K, so these should be about 85K each. Santa Cruz CCD is 151K, although the city is just 40-odd K. Watsonville CCD is 72K, so some outer Santa Cruz territory should be added. Seaside and San Lorenzo Valley CCDs in the northern part of the county are just 33K and will be combined with outer parts of Santa Cruz CCD in the Monterey Bay North seat.WEST CONTRA COSTA 1 & 2.The Richmond area. 236KCENTRAL CONTRA COSTA 1-5The Livermore Valley area (as far as it's not in Alameda County). 459K. Mountainous Briones (6K, to the West) and Tassajara (27K, to the Southeast) CCDs should be included in Central seats.ANTIOCH - PITTSBURG - CONTRA COSTA EAST 1 & 2Antioch - Pittsburg and East Contra Costa CCDs. 221K. Basically one seat is in Antioch-Pittsburg and the other is mostly in East Contra Costa but has a considerable portion of eastern Antioch-Pittsburg as welll.BERKELEYCity and CCD of Berkely. 119KOAKLAND 1-4; ALAMEDAOakland CCD has 417K (the city has 399K). Alameda City & CCD has 72K and is totally surrounded by Oakland and water. 5 seats with 489 K together.FREMONT 1-3Fremont CCD. 311K togetherHAYWARD 1-3LIVERMOREPLEASANTONHayward CCD has 351K. Livermore-Pleasanton CCD has 172K. I had to combine them to stay at 14 seats, thence one seat will cross the boundary.STOCKTON 1-3Stockton CCD of San Joaquin County. 307K. The city has 242K.LODILodi, Thornton, and Lockeford CCDs. 87KTRACYTracy CCD. 70K. Plus part of Manteca CCD, 71K, staying as clear of the city as possible.MANTECA & ESCALONRemainder of Manteca CCD. Ripon, Linden-Farmington, and Escalon CCDs. Population of these last three:29K. Population of the two constituencies: 170K.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

MODESTO NORTHMODESTO SOUTHSTANISLAUS EASTModesto CCD (282K). And Oakdale, Waterford, and Hughson CCDs, 47K, which will be in the Stanislaus East seat, together with part of Modesto CCD (but as little as possible of the city proper. The city has 186K inhabitants, but there's quite a few other areas that will probably have to go into Modesto N or Modesto S.)TURLOCKRemainder of Stanislaus County. 118K.MERCED & LOS BANOS (or MERCED SOUTH)Merced, Dos Palos, and Los Banos CCDs. 119 K. ATWATER (or MERCED NORTH)Remainder of Merced County. 92K.YOSEMITE & DEATH VALLEYMariposa, Alpine, Mono and Inyo Counties. Oakburst-North Fork CCD of Madera County. Just 75K. Given the constituency's vast size and nonexistent road linkage (you'll have to drive through Tuolumne), noone can complain.MADERARemainder of Madera County. 97K.FRESNO 1-6Fresno CCD. 570K.SELMA & KERMANFirebaugh, Mendota, San Joaquin - Tranquility, Coalinga, Huron, Kerman, Caruthers - Raisin City, Riverdale, Laton, Selma CCDs. 115K. Western part of county.REEDLEY & SANGERRemainder of Fresno County. 114K. Eastern part of county.HANFORD & AVENALKings County except for Corcoran CCD. 112K.VISALIATulare County CCD of said name. 105K.TULARE & CORCORANCorcoran CCD of Kings County. Tulare, Tipton, Pridley and Earlimart CCDs of Tulare County. 91K.PORTERVILLEPorterville, Terra Bella, Lindsay and Strathmore CCDs. 90K.EXETER - THREE RIVERSRemainder of Tulare County. 93K.BAKERSFIELD 1-4.Bakersfield, Arvin - Lamont, and Greenfield - Panama CCDs of Kern County. 387KROSEDALE - KERN RIVERRosedale, Wasco, Buttonwillow, and Westside CCDs. 91KDELANO - SHAFTERMcFarland - Delano, Lake Isabella, and Shafter CCDs. 86K.TEHACHAPI - EAST KERNCCDs of said name (ie, remainder of county). 98K.MONTEREYSeaside-Monterey CCD. 113K. Seaside is such a generic name. Everybody knows where Monterey is.SALINAS NORTH & CASTROVILLESALINAS SOUTH198K. Salinas CCD has 163K. IIRC there were two small CCDs to the north of Salinas that I added, but I didn't put down the name of the other one.SAN BENITO & SOLEDADSan Benito County. Gonzales, Toro, Soledad & Greenfield CCDs of Monterey County. "Of Mice and Men" set here. 101K.PASO ROBLES - CARMEL VALLEYRemainder of Monterey County. Paso Robles CCD of San Luis Obispo County. 81K.SAN LUIS OBISPO (& ATASCADERO, if that isn't too big a mouthful)San Luis Obispo CCD minus small coastal strip, Atascadero CCD. 101K minus x.ARROYO GRANDE & MORRO BAY.Arroyo Grande and North Coast CCDs. 106K plus x.SANTA MARIA VALLEYSanta Barbara County CCD of that name. 111K.LOMPOCAll of Santa Barbara County except Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara and Carpinteria Valley CCDs. 87K.SANTA BARBARA WEST & GOLETASANTA BARBARA EAST & CARPINTERIA201K together. At first I thought of a district based on Santa Barbara city (which will now be split; 92K) and a Goleta-Carpinteria district, but that would be purely nominally coterminous.VENTURAVentura CCD. 106K.OXNARD EASTOXNARD WEST208K together.SIMI VALLEY & THOUSAND OAKS 1-3.Simi Valley CCD, 116K. Thousand Oaks CCD, 149K. And Triunfo Pass - Coastal CCD, 2K.CAMARILLOCamarillo, Moorpark, and Las Posas CCDs. 94KSANTA PAULA - LOS PADRESRemainder (north) of Ventura County. 81K.LA County...the following CCD's, in alphabetical order.BURBANK. 1 seat.CALABASAS. 1 seat.COMPTON. 3 seats. Likely to be named Compton, Carson, and Lynwood.DOWNEY - NORWALK. 4 seats.EAST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY. 9 seats. This is the Pomona, West Covina etc area.GLENDALE. 2 seats.INGLEWOOD. 4 seats. Also includes Hawthorne, Gardena.LONG BEACH - LAKEWOOD. 6 seats.LOS ANGELES. Theoretically entitled to 39 seats, but see below. The city and all the enclaves too small to be chopped off, basically - such as those of the Hollywood area, except Santa Monica. Some tiny specks of the city are elsewhere. This area still spans from BelAir to San Pedro, though.NEWHALL. 2 seats. Main town is Santa Clarita.NORTH ANTELOPE VALLEY. Entitled to 1+1 seat. Solved by pairing with SOUTH ANTELOPE VALLEY, also entitled to 1+1 seat, making three seats. Probably urban seats based on Lancaster (in North) and Palmdale (in South) and a large rural remnant, probably named Antelope Valley. PALOS VERDES. 1 seat.PASADENA. Entitled to 2+1 seat.Couldn't be paired with any of its other neighbors, thence paired with Los Angeles to create an area entitled to 41 seats.SOUTH BAY CITIES. Entitled to 1+1 seat. White, mixed-voting area around Redondo Beach. Solved by pairing with TORRANCE, also entitled to 1+1 seat, making three seats. That won't please them. SANTA MONICA. 1 seat.SOUTHEAST. Quintessential East LA, this. 5 seats.SOUTHWEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY. 3 seats. Alhambra, Monterey Park etc. UPPER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY. 3 seats. El Monte etc.WHITTIER. 3 seats. East LA beyond East LA. Becoming more similar to East LA hourly. Richard Nixon once represented the area.And because that's still 95 seats (see above), LA/Pasadena will only get 40 seats. The average size will still be just 102,500.ANAHEIM - SANTA ANA - GARDENGROVE 1-16.See San Jose.NORTH COAST 1-4Area around Huntington Beach etc.NEWPORT BEACHCOSTA MESAThese two seats make up the Central Coast CCD.SOUTHERN PART OF COUNTY 1-6.El Toro, Trabuco and South Coast CCDs. Entitled to 7 CCDs individually, but 6 when taken together. There would be an El Toro (Irvine) seat, a Trabuco (Mission Viejo) seat, two South Coast seats (names to be determined), and two holdover seats combining parts of at least two of the CCDs each.ONTARIO 1-5SAN BERNARDINO 1-7.San Bernardino County CCD's of these names. As you can see, I got bored.YUCAIPA - ARROWHEADYucaipa, Big Bear, Arrowhead and Mount Baldy - Wrightwood CCDs. 98KHESPERIAHesperia city, part of Apple Valley city.VICTORVILLEVictorville city, Adelanto city, remainder of Apple Valley city. 199K together.BARSTOWRemainder of Barstow-Victorville CCD. Quite vast. 86K.TWENTYNINE PALMS - MOHAVE DESERTVery vast remainder of San Bernardino County. 89K.JURUPA.Riverside County CCD of that name (as are the next 15 seats). 85KCORONA NORTHCORONA SOUTH - NORCO169K together.ELSINORE VALLEY - LAKE MATHEWS87K. Two CCDs.3 MURRIETA and PARRIS VALLEY seats. 291K together.4 RIVERSIDE seats, one of them also including the SAN GORGONIO PASS area. 442K together.HEMET - SAN JACINTO115K. One CCD.CATHEDRAL CITYPart of Cathedral City - Palm Desert CCD (121K)PALM SPRINGSRemainder, plus Palm Springs and Idyllwild CCDs. 176K together.COACHELLA VALLEY119K.SALTON SEADesert Hot Springs, Chuckwalla and Palo Verde CCDs of Riverside County. Four CCDs of Imperial County that I didn't write down the names for (though one was simply called East Imperial and another West Imperial). 109K together.IMPERIAL VALLEYBrawley, Imperial, El Centro, Holtville, and Calexico CCDs of Imperial County. 118KOCEANSIDE - ESCONDIDO. 6 seats. Oceanside - Escondido CCD has 555K. I had to add Pendleton and Fallbrook CCDs though, pushing the total to 635K. Oceanside, Escondido, Vista, San Marcos, and Pendleton might make 5 of the 6 constituency names. Or 6...Oceanside or Escondido getting an East and a West constituency.SAN DIEGO. 21 seats for this CCD. Includes most suburbs as well.RAMONA (stand-in name, after largest town. Should be replaced by a geographical term, though.)All the remaining, eastern San Diego County, CCDs. 100K.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Ada County, 301K inhabitants, 3 seats.Canyon County, 131K inhabitants, 1 seat and part of 1. Has been paired with Payette, Owyhee and Elmore Counties.Kootenai County, 109K inhabitants, 1 seat.Bonneville County, 83K inhabitants, 1 seat.Remainder of the state to make six seats.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Muon: See the first post. Just before the smilie. Immy: Coming soon.WMS: Your job.

My point was that your exercise might be more useful if assigned to the state legislatures, rather than to the federal government.

...in the large states.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

I've looked these over on a map again and they're unacceptable. I'll have to split Bonneville, pairing the larger part (likely around the city of Idaho Falls) with Bingham County (42K) and the remainder with the counties to the north.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Yolo County:DAVISDavis, Winters, Esparto and Knights Landing CCDs. 85K.WOODLAND & WEST SACRAMENTOWoodland, East Yolo and Clarksburg CCDs. 85K.Districts are somewhat Yin and Yang shaped, to prevent splitting any of the county's three urban areas.

NE Idaho:Idaho Falls CCD has 75K of Bonneville County's 82K inhabitants. I'll have to split the area. (52K are within the city itself, which is situated pretty much at the center of the CCD and will probably have to be split as well.)IDAHO FALLS SOUTH & BLACKFOOTBingham County (42K), approximately 53K of Idaho Falls CCD of Bonneville County.IDAHO FALLS NORTH & REXBURGRemainder of Bonneville County (app. 30K) and Jefferson, Madison, Fremont, Teton Counties (64K).

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

A problem arises in the NW of the state because Flathead County, with 74K inhabitants, and Missoula County together separate 4 more counties (with over 46K inhabitants) from the rest of the state. This could only be solved by putting some more counties in with Missoula, or by splitting Flathead County. I went with the first option. Names I chose are more than just a bit dull, btw.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Nevada - 1,998 mio inhabitants. 20 seats.Clark County has 1,376 mio inhabitants and gets 14 seats.Washoe County has 339K inhabitants and gets three seats.The remainder of the state has 283K inhabitants and gets three seats.

SPARKS (& PYRAMID LAKE, or & WASHOE NORTH)High Desert, Pyramid Lake, Warm Springs - Truckee Canyon, Sun Valley, Sparks CCDs of Washoe County. 102 K. Perhaps plus 3K of Reno North CCD that are outside Reno city limits, including 2K that are inside Sparks city limits.RENO EASTBulk of Reno North and Reno South East CCDs. 126K -x.RENO WESTNot nearly as urban as Reno East. Incline Village, Washoe Valley, Reno South West, Verdi and North Valleys CCDs. Plus a bit of either Reno North or Reno South East probably. 112K plus x.CARSON CITYCarson City, Douglas County. 93K.PAHRUMP & NEVADA WESTLyon, Storey, Mineral, Churchill, Esmeralda and Nye Counties. 100K. This district includes 30% of the surface area of Nevada. Pahrump is a Las Vegas exurb of 24K inhabitants that is just over the county line in Nye.ELKO & NEVADA NORTH EASTElko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Pershing and White Pine Counties. 89K. This district includes 56% of the surface area of Nevada. Half the population is in Elko County.CLARK COUNTYCCD's are no use as they include Clark (50K) and Las Vegas (1,326mio).However, city boundaries are in parts quite sane:Henderson, 176K - 2 seatsLas Vegas, 478K, and Winchester, 27K - 5 seats togetherNorth Las Vegas, 115K - 1 seatParadise, 186K - 2 seatsSpring Valley, 117K - 1 seatSunrise Manor, 156K, Nellis AFB, 9K, and Whitney, 18K - 2 seats togetherThat leaves 94K for an outer Clark County seat with a geographical name (MOAPA VALLEY & HOOVER DAM perhaps). However, there are some enclaves to iron out to make districts contiguous. If this pushes population below 80K, the remaining population will have to be gained by splitting either North Las Vegas or Spring Valley (as both are oversized and on the edge of the urbanized area.)

« Last Edit: April 30, 2005, 03:53:37 am by Lewis Trondheim »

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.

Wasatch Front counties have 18 seats together (Cache 1, Weber 2, Davis 2, Salt Lake 9, Utah 4.) Washington County in the far SW of the state has another seat. That leaves three seats for rural Utah.

LOGANCache County. 91KOGDENPart of Ogden CCD (180K) of Weber County (197K), including all the city of Ogden (77K).WEBERRemainder of Weber County. Though it's not a geographical name actually, it's unique as a county name.LAYTONMost of North Davis CCD (150K) of Davis County (239K)BOUNTIFULRemainder of North Davis CCD; South Davis CCD (89K).SALT LAKE 1-9CCD's are not helpful as four minor CCD's, two to the West, two to the East, have just 59K together.Major places that would likely be included in constituency names are Salt Lake City (182K, two or perhaps more constituencies would bear this name), West Valley City (109K), Sandy (86K), Taylorsville (57K), West Jordan (54K).PROVOOREMProvo-Orem CCD of Utah County. 190K (Provo city has 105K, Orem city 84K. Obviously part of Provo would have to be in the Orem seat.)LEHI & AMERICAN FORKAmerican Fork - Pleasant Grove and Lehi CCDs. 98K.SPRINGVILLE & SPANISH FORKGoshe, Spanish Fork - Payson, and Springville - Mapleton CCDs, ie remainder of Utah County. 81K.GREAT SALT LAKEBox Elder, Tooele, Juab and Sanpete Counties. 115K. This district includes 22% of Utah's surface area. Sanpete included (creating an ugly boundary line) to avoid splitting a county.WASATCH MOUNTAINSRich, Morgan, Summit, Wasatch, Duchesne, Daggett, Uintah and Carbon Counties. 114K. This district includes 17% of Utah's surface area.UTAH SOUTHRemainder of state except for Washington County. 120K. This district includes 52% of Utah's surface area.SAINT GEORGEWashington County. 90K.

Logged

If I'm shown as having been active here recently it's either because I've been using the gallery, because I've been using the search engine looking up something from way back, or because I've been reading the most excellent UK by-elections thread again.